Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology articles from September 2007

Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology archives from September 2007

Compassion fatigue.(Editorial)(Editorial)
September 1, 2007... Compassion is not religious business, it is human business. It is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability. It is essential for human survival. Dalai Lama Head of the Dge-lugs-pa order of Tibetan Buddhists...

Deep brain stimulation and speech: a new model of speech function and dysfunction in Parkinson's disease.(Health Care Forum)
September 1, 2007... Since its first description in 1980 (Cooper, Upton, & Amin, 1980), deep brain stimulation (DBS) has become a remarkably effective therapy for an expanding range of neurological and psychiatric disorders. It is standard accepted therapy for...

Evidence-based practice recommendations: caregiver-administered active cognitive stimulation for individuals with Alzheimer's disease.(ANCDS Bulletin Board)
September 1, 2007... The Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS), the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), its Special Interest Division 2 (SID-2, Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders), and the...

Chronic cough: a tutorial for speech-language pathologists.(Tutorial)(Report)
September 1, 2007... There is emerging evidence for the efficacy of speech pathology intervention for individuals with chronic cough (CC) that persists despite medical treatment, but there are limited resources available to assist speech-language pathologists to...

Preliminary evidence of silent articulatory attempts and starters in acquired apraxia of speech: a case study.(Case study)
September 1, 2007... The aim of the present study was to provide preliminary evidence of silent articulatory attempts and/or starters in AOS, and to report their effect on response latency. The kinematic properties of the silent articulatory attempts and/or...

Variability in apraxia of speech: a perceptual, acoustic, and kinematic analysis of stop consonants.(Case study)
September 1, 2007... This investigation was designed to examine articulatory variability over time in an individual with apraxia of speech (AOS) and aphasia. Speech recordings were made on three occasions within an 8-day period. The second and third recordings were...

Speech disfluencies in adults with neurogenic stuttering associated with stroke and traumatic brain injury.(Case study)
September 1, 2007... This study is part of a larger project aimed at exploring the speech, language, cognitive, psychosocial, and medical characteristics of adult neurogenic stuttering. In the present article, speech disfluency patterns in adults with neurogenic...

Lip kinematics in spasmodic dysphonia before and after treatment with botulinum toxin.(Case study)
September 1, 2007... In order to learn about articulatory behavior in adductor spasmodic dysphonia (SD), the lip movements of seven individuals with SD and three control speakers were recorded with strain gauges as they repeated "Buy Bobby a puppy" in voiced and...

Articulatory contact pressure between the tongue and palate during normal speech production.
September 1, 2007... Contacts between the tongue and palate are needed to obstruct or constrict airflows during production of a number of speech sounds, but there is limited empirical evidence regarding the magnitude of the contact pressure between the tongue and...

The effects of Botox and voice therapy in the management of severe muscle tension dysphonia: a case study.(Case study)
September 1, 2007... This study reports the case of a 61-year-old female participant with severe, intractable muscle tension dysphonia and ventricular phonation treated with botulinum toxin-A (Botox) and subsequent voice therapy. Following bilateral injections of...

Performance of a person with chronic aphasia using personal and contextual pictures in a Visual Scene Display prototype.(Case study)
September 1, 2007... Recent advances using AAC strategies and systems have increased functional communication skills of people with chronic aphasia. This single subject multiple baseline study investigated the use of one such system--a contextual picture-based...

Episodes of word retrieval failures in aphasia.(Case study)
September 1, 2007... Patterns of word retrieval failure, in the form of episodes (number of consecutive errors), were investigated in fluent and nonfluent aphasic adults with word retrieval problems. Specifically, the occurrence of one, two, three, and four-plus...

Within-session learning of novel auditory tasks by persons with aphasia.(Case study)
September 1, 2007... Studies examining the auditory abilities of persons with aphasia typically employ novel auditory tasks and assess performance based upon means across the testing session. However, it is not clear that the manner in which performance changes...